Archive for March, 2005
Mug Shot
Monday, March 7th, 2005
Would you trust your English to these people?
I know I wouldn’t.
Albums
Sunday, March 6th, 2005
I saw this in the record store the other day, but just got around to putting the pictures next to each other. Here are the covers for G.Lasts Tribute to Godzilla’s 50th and In The Court Of The Crimson King.
Pretty weird huh? The KC cover is by Gary Godber, but I can’t get confirmation on the G.Lasts one. So it may have been done by a cyborg replacement or a superintelligent dog. Maybe 50 monkeys were locked in a room until they reproduced prog rock album art with a Godzilla twist. They could have done much worse.
Spoken Engrish
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
I had an impromptu one on one class with Mr. cat piss today. His spoken grammar is not a lot better than his written grammar (insane) so it was pretty interesting. The subject was superstitions, and the book had several American old wives’ tales. At the end I was to prompt them for Japanese old wives tales. After a verbal struggle we figured out that if you cut your nails at night, you won’t be there when your parents die. A little odd, but it was confirmed by the other Japanese staff after class. Since he was the only person in the class I had to kind of artificially lengthen the activities, so I asked him for another. It started off just the way every story should:
“This is…..a dirty story.”
What follows is basically what he said, but I don’t record the classes or anything so its just what my brain can attempt to piece together.
“When we are in childrenhood we sometimes take a pish to some small animals. Like beetle or something. When we do that, our parents say your……..*wild hand gesture* very important part becomes sick”
Wow. Also it should be noted that he is very fond of the word “piss” apparently, but when he pronounces it it comes out as “pish.” Just another reason he is the greatest student ever. Even more than that, he’s moving up to the next textbook in April. Joy.
